The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

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New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

The hole was originally the vent for shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, an operation so vast that it produced 1% of ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

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South African rand steady as investors eye key US data The South African rand was steady in early trade on Friday, as traders look ahead to U.S. labour market data later in the day for indications on ...

The Africa Cup of Nations 2025 has taken center stage in December and early January, as 24 teams went to Morocco aiming to be crowned AFCON champs. Now only a handful remain in this brilliant ...

Analysis of 60,000-year-old artifacts has uncovered the oldest known poison arrowheads, hinting at advanced ancient knowledge ...